Lack of employment opportunities and lack luster test scores from local schools are the reason for Ore City's decline in property values. Family and friends are one of the few reasons to live in Ore City and people buy what the economy will allow them to afford. Not everyone can afford to build a new home in these uncertain economic times. Many small towns just like Ore City are being vacated. The property values in a ghost town would be even lower. You are fortunate that Ore City folks feel a strong tie to their roots and choose to raise their families there even if it is in a mobile home. There are plenty of mobile homes on the market now that are worth more than the majority of the existing structures in Ore City.

Your comment has great facts behind it. Its a shame that people have let this go this far. Most people are just looking at the present not the future. Its not just an OC problem its a county problem. There is no commerce and that being said the county as a whole will suffer. Yes we need people that are concerned about the future of OC. The main problem is self-gratification. The people that we need are Leaders that have the best interest of the county in mind. Also Leaders in OC that are not out to make themselves look good. We need people in OC that WANT OC to grow. Mobile homes have their place but in town is not it. IMO

Please let you'er own interest subside and think of the future of OUR children. Not for what WE can gain right.

What i call this is the "Microwave Society"

Please lets put off our own desires and think of the future of OC and the county. Well that's my nickles worth, i kinda past the 2 cents.....lol